{"id":31694,"date":"2012-11-07T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T18:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31694"},"modified":"2012-11-07T09:28:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T15:28:18","slug":"nobody-retired-any-wedges-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31694","title":{"rendered":"Nobody Retired Any Wedges Last Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Rosenberg is one of the few bloggers at\u00a0<em>Minnesota Progressive Project\u00a0<\/em>that doesn&#8217;t deserve to be under either police surveillance, court-ordered commitment, or both.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnprogressiveproject.com\/diary\/12471\/new-dfl-majorities-should-immediately-legalize-samesex-marriage\">that doesn&#8217;t mean he gets<\/a> how Democrat politics works:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0The very first thing they should do, though, is officially legalize same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>The vote against marriage discrimination was historic. It was uplifting. And it came amidst a number of other wonderful victories for the LGBT community and its allies. But if you&#8217;ll forgive me for saying so mere hours after this historic victory, it&#8217;s not enough. Not discriminating against same-sex couples any more than we already do just doesn&#8217;t cut it. It&#8217;s time for full equality, and there has never been a better opportunity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Somewhere out at Alida Messinger&#8217;s estate, a DFL organizer &#8211; a union guy, maybe, or one of Alida&#8217;s hired fixers with ABM &#8211; is saying two things to himself right about now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Alida looks a lot like the bass player for &#8220;Sweet&#8221;, circa 1974&#8243;.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Jeff! Bubbie! \u00a0Slow down! \u00a0Not so fast!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Like abortion, gay marriage is an issue that serves the Democrats (and parts of the GOP) better unresolved.<\/p>\n<p>The DFL &#8211; and Democrats nationwide, as yesterday&#8217;s election showed &#8211; run, and win, on selling victimization.<\/p>\n<p>If gays &#8211; who are a percent or two of the population that votes reliably Democrat &#8211; ever stop howling &#8220;Why can&#8217;t we get married?&#8221;, they might start howling &#8220;why can&#8217;t we find a job&#8221; or &#8220;why are our taxes so damn high?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the courts may settle it for us. \u00a0But the legislature? \u00a0Forget about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Rosenberg is one of the few bloggers at\u00a0Minnesota Progressive Project\u00a0that doesn&#8217;t deserve to be under either police surveillance, court-ordered commitment, or both. But that doesn&#8217;t mean he gets how Democrat politics works: \u00a0The very first thing they should do, though, is officially legalize same-sex marriage. The vote against marriage discrimination was historic. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31696,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31694\/revisions\/31696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}